The Delta Grassroots Caucus (DGC) is a broad coalition of grassroots leaders in the eight-state Delta region. DGC is also a founding partner of the Economic Equality Caucus,which advocates for economic equality across the USA.

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Delta Grassroots Caucus Events

Credit Michael Hibblen/ KUAR News, Arkansas Public Radio; Former President Bill Clinton speaking to the Delta Grassroots Caucus on May 2, 2013, at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, Little Rock

MAIN SESSION

THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2008, 9 A.M. TO 4:30 P.M.

GREAT HALL OF THE WILLIAM J. CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY

9 A.M. TO 9:45 A.M.

GOVERNOR MIKE BEEBE OF ARKANSAS–Remarks on key Delta regional issues

FORUM FOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES-

9:45 A.M. THROUGH LUNCHEON TO 1 P.M.

The major campaigns will be asked to state what they would do to promote economic development in the Delta if elected president. The Delta Grassroots Caucus will not endorse any candidate and just seeks to promote a thoughtful, nonpartisan debate about how to promote a brighter economic future for this vast, impoverished region of America’s heartland.

9:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.-
BOB NASH, SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON;S DEPUTY CAMPAIGN MANAGER, former Director of White House Personnel and former USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development in the Clinton administration

10:30 A.M. TO 11:15 A.M.-
FRENCH HILL, GOVERNOR MIKE HUCKABEE’S FINANCE CHAIR, former White House economic adviser and US Dept. of Treasury official for the first President George H.W. Bush

EDUCATION AND DEVELOPING A WELL-EDUCATED AND WELL-TRAINED WORKFORCE

Tiffany Hardrick, Prinicipal of a new charter school in New Orleans, Louisiana serving low-income neighborhoods devastated by Hurricane Katrina

Mayor Bobby Hardrick, Madison, Arkansas

Sanford Johnson, Graduate student at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, a native of Starkville, MS, graduate of Auburn University, taught at Helena’s KIPP school and after graduation plans to live in Clarksdale, MS where he taught with Teach for America.

2:45 TO 4:10 P.M.

JOB CREATION INITIATIVES

Mayor Sheldon Day, Thomasville, Alabama

Alan McVey, Arkansas State University Delta Center for Economic Development